Pentecost Fifty Days after Pascha Acts 2:1-4 The top of the icon shows the lower part of a mandorla (An almond shaped object that shows events transcending time and space and with a darker interior symbolizing holiness ‘beyond brightness’) radiating the Holy Spirit onto the assembled Church below. The red drapery shows the event is taking place inside in the Upper Room. The tongues of fire from the Holy Spirit are shown above each head. The assembled group is timeless, representing the Church rather than those literally there at the event. Peter is on the left (actually the ‘right hand’ of the empty seat of the risen Christ showing Peter’s leadership role) along with the Apostle Matthew and the Evangelist Luke. St. Paul is on the right along with St. John and St. Mark the Evangelist. The figure at the bottom is Cosmos who represents all humanity lost in the dark ‘cave’ of alienation from God and sin. His crown symbolizes mankind as the ‘crown’ or icon of God whose wholeness will be restored by the descending Holy Spirit and by means of the teachings of Christ though the apostles. This teaching is shown by the twelve scrolls he holds on the outstretched white (pure/holy) cloth. The golden striation that radiate outwards symbolize the sanctifying and renewing work of the Holy Spirit involved in the divinization of humanity.